Robert Snyder
Robert Snyder
Robert Snyder was an award-winning documentary filmmaker who won an Academy Award in 1950 as producer of The Titan: Story of Michelangelo...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 January 1916
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I've been coming out here for eight years. I come for the exercise, the entertainment and the vegetables. It's like old world shopping here.
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Quill was militant but he often blustered and then settled at the last minute. Quill also was everywhere in city politics. Roger Toussaint has not been that kind of presence.
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Toussaint hasn't been a vigorous enough and omnipresent enough face for the transit workers union.
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Many New Yorkers, rightly or wrongly, feel that the union's case is not as strong as it might be because they don't have very good pensions themselves. It's not something like the safety issue or the conductor issue or the token clerk issue, where the union has significant common ground with the transit riding public.